Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..

[Kim F. Storm]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

> > > I checked out CVS today. 
> > > 
> > > unfortunately, the latest CVS seems to have keys f7 and f8 bounded to
> > > kmacro commands. The keys f5--f9 are supposed to be reserved for
> > > users. (and my .emacs relies on these conventions).
> > > 
> > 
> > I can see that is a problem.  
> > 
> > I need to bind them to two adjacent function keys, but maybe we should
> > move them to f3 and f4 instead ? 
> 
> Please don't use Fn keys.  It's very non-intuitive.

But its so much simpler to use...  

Although I can see that there is more "sense" in the C-x (, C-x ), and
C-x e bindings, they are just way too cumbersome to type.

I.e. I have to hit 4 keys to type C-x (, type the macro, then hit 4
keys to type C-x ), and finally 3 keys to type C-x e for every call of
the macro.

This means that keyboard macros are simply not used as much as they
could be with simpler bindings.  Compare the above with: hit f3, type
the macro, hit f4, and then hit f4 for every invocation of the macro.

In any case, I haven't removed the old bindings, just *supplemented*
them with a much more efficient interfaces based on using two function
keys.

So the question is not whether to use function keys, but which ones
to use by default.  If I don't hear any objections to using f3 and f4,
I'll make the change.

> By the way, how about making C-x e e e e e e repeat like
> C-x z z z z z does ?

Try C-x C-k C-k C-k.... :-)


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk